Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA person's breast or nipple. · An animal's teat or udder. · An idiot; a fool. · A police officer; a "tithead".
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
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- Inherited-form mentiontitenm
- Inherited-form mentiontitang
- Inherited-form mention*tittgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*tittazgem-pro · teat; nipple; breast
- Cognate mention*dʰeh₁(y)-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionteaten
- Cognate mentionTitstq
- Cognate mentiontietnl
- Cognate mentiontetnl
- Cognate mentionZitzede
- Cognate mentionDitzhrx
- Cognate mentionציצעyi
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